Vancouver actor Trevor Devall has started a series of podcast interviews with his fellow voice actors on his website. First out were Sam Vincent and Michael Dobson, with Matt Hill coming up next.

Koutaro has been in charge of the faltering Sakura Market since his father’s recent passing. Koutaro’s stepmother Mintaro and stepsister Nagisa try to help out, but the family business is Koutaro’s to protect from his older-brother Taiyo and the corporate backer Kaneshiro. The two men are looking to buy the shop to add to their chain of markets. Between financial problems and the fact that he lives with two sexy, available women, Koutaro’s days have been anything but easy. Based on the hentai game Tsuma Tsuma 3 from Discovery and animated by ANIMAC comes Wife with Wife: Volume 1 from JapanAnime. (more…)

Based on the manga Me wo Tojite Daite by Shungiku Uchida (Omae no Kaachan Bitch!!, Maboroshi no Futsuu Shoujo) comes the daring depiction of a man caught between two worlds. Amane (Kazuya Takahashi; Kamikaze Taxi) has been dating someone from the office building for a while now. Juri (Natsue Yoshimura) is considered a beautiful, intellegent woman and quite a catch for any man to land. However, Amane has been more and more withdrawn as their relationship progressed. Driving while distracted by his thoughts, Amane accidently hits a woman stepping out into the road. From Central Park Media’s Asia Pulp Cinema lines comes the taboo film Close Your Eyes and Hold Me starring Kumiko Takeda in her most demanding role. (more…)

Following up on our news post back in March, XSEED Games have announced that they plan to release the Hajime no Ippo (a.k.a. Fighting Spirit) Wii game in the US this fall. GameTrailers.com has several video clips posted from the Japanese release to tide you over for now. (more…)

Masahiko Nakahira wrote and illustrated several Street Fighter related manga titles (SF Zero, Sakura Ganbaru! , SFIII: Ryu Final) at the height of the game’s first rise in popularity. Cammy Gaiden was picked up and published chapter-by-chapter in English in the Viz-owned Game On! magazine to the delight of many hardcore Street Fighter fans. Second only to Chun-Li in popularity, Cammy stands as one of the most popular additions to the Street Fighter series since Street Fighter II was originally released. The British intelligence agent’s unknown past also leaves writers with a fairly open chance to explain in detail how Cammy ended up working under Shadowloo, why she has only scattered memories of her past, and what drove her to become the powerhouse fighter she is today. Nakahira fills in some of the gaps in Cammy’s MI6/Shadowloo background and training through four stories in Super Street Fighter II: Cammy from Viz. (more…)

Based on the Sega Saturn game trilogy Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny, Yu Kajima and his unit of experimental Federation corps pilot mobile suit test units in battle to find out how effective the new equipment is. A thankless job, Yu Kajima’s group has a high turnover rate and gets little respect from the regular unit corps. While clearing out a Zeon base, a blue mobile suit appears and takes on Kajima’s unit. In a flash the men are almost destroyed before the mysterious blue unit retreats from recieving heavy damage itself during the fight. But before the unit is gone, the haunting image of a woman with angelic wings calls out to Yu to stop her. Written and illustrated by Mizuho Takayama, Mobile Suit Gundam: Blue Destiny from Mixx Manga explores a new side-story adventure in Universal Century 0079. (more…)

Director Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive series, Ichi the Killer) doesn’t make nice films. Any movie that bears the mere mention of the director is a clear message to the viewer that graphic violence is going to be found quickly under the surface of even the tamest-looking feature films. Seven years ago, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi; Suicide Club, The Grudge) lost his wife and found himself raising his son, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki; Boogiepop and Others), on his own. With his son and a film-producer friend, Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura; Tomie: Forbidden Fruit, Kill Bill: Vol. 1), nagging him to find a woman and remarry, Shigeharu gives in to the pair and humors their search. Using a fake movie audition to lure in women to be interviewed, a quiet ballerina named Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina; Sky High, Eureka) catches Shigeharu’s attention. A courtship soon begins, but this delicate flower has thorns hidden beneath the surface. Lions Gate Entertainment brings the femme fatale story Audition: Uncut Special Edition to DVD to scare a new audience in America. (more…)

Venus Versus Virus is a manga created by Atsushi Suzumi that has been adapted into an anime series. Not released in America yet, I’m watching the R2 DVDs. I’ve been interested in Venus Versus Virus since I first saw the manga, and the animated series does not disappoint. The story focuses on Lucia and Sumire, two girls who work together at the shop Venus Vangard, exterminating the evil spirits called Viruses. Lucia and Sumire each have their own unique powers, but these abilities come at a cost. (more…)

Based on the manga characer by Tohru Shinohara (Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion) comes the fourth installment to the Zero Woman franchise. Rei (Mai Tachihara; Ringu: Kanzen-ban) follows Mutoh’s orders from the Zero Department, but the working relationship between the two is becoming strained as the nomadic life of an assassin takes its toll on Rei both physically and emotionally. While gathering intelligence on a new target, Rei meets a young man willing to whore himself out for money to any man willing to pay. Taking Mitsuru (Yuujin Kitagawa; Eko Eko Azarak 2) under her care, Rei slowly begins to change now that she has a companion in her life. However, when a string of murders pop up in the area and carry the style only a professional assassin like a Zero Woman can do, Rei tries to switch back to business to clear her name. Directed by Daisuke Gotoh (Scorpion’s Revenge, Zero Woman 2) comes Zero Woman: Namae no Nai onna as Zero Woman: The Accused from Central Park Media’s Asia Pulp Cinema. (more…)

Aquaplus’s popular PC-dating-sim-turned-slice-of-life-anime-series is back for another round of the tough daily troubles facing Hiroyuki Fujita, Akari Kamigishi, and the rest of the To Heart gang. Hiroyuki and Akari accidently end up getting to study alone. Class rep Tomoko has the the Cultural Festival to plan for and the class brats are making trouble. And the school ends up being the testing grounds for a new prototype robot maid who is more alive than some of the real people. From RightStuf comes To Heart: Volume 3 – Bonds of Friendship to set up the final act as friends grow closer and troubles don’t rise above a simmer. (more…)